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Geddes championed a mode of planning that sought to consider "primary human needs" in every intervention, engaging in "constructive and conservative surgery" [30] rather than the "heroic, all of a piece schemes" [31] popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He continued to use and advocate for this approach throughout his career.
When coming back in Europe in 1924 after a long stay in India, Geddes decided to settle with his daughter Norah in Montpellier, a city that was already linked with Scotland since the Middle Ages, when it became the European capital of medicine: "In this he was harking back to medieval ideas, looking for unity among scholars who saw a wholeness in their studies and in where they lived with ...
Sociologist Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) preferred "conservative surgery": retaining the best buildings in an area and removing the worst. There was a revival of the baronial style, particularly after the rebuilding of Abbotsford House for Walter Scott from 1816, and a parallel revival of the Gothic in church architecture.
Patrick Geddes (1864-1932) was the founder of regional planning. [22] His main influences were the geographers Élisée Reclus and Paul Vidal de La Blache, as well as the sociologist Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play. [23] From these he received the idea of the natural region. [24]
The Geddes Quadrangle was named for Patrick Geddes, a pioneering thinker in the fields of sociology and urban planning and former professor of botany at Dundee, as a botanist Geddes had originally proposed a garden in the center of the quadrangle to be used for teaching purposes. [35]
Let's just say that Patrick Warburton's conservative parents were not exactly proud of their son when he made his debut on Seinfeld in 1995. "The first episode I did of Seinfeld, ...
When Patrick Kane steps onto the ice for his first NHL game as a Detroit Red Wing this week, Dr. Edwin Su will be watching "with a little bit of nervousness.". Su, an orthopedic surgeon who ...
Anna Geddes was born Anna Morton to an Ulster Scot merchant Frazer Morton and his wife in Liverpool on 19 November 1857, [2] and was the fourth of six children. [3] She was born into a strict Presbyterian household, [4]: 108 but was encouraged to pursue music and after finishing boarding school she was sent to Dresden to study singing and piano, later becoming a music teacher.